Best LLM for Creative Writing: AI Writing Leaderboard

The writing board covers five writing-related categories of the LMArena text leaderboard, one per tab: creative writing (creative_writing, default), writing/literature/language tasks, longer prompts (longer_query; not a long-context test), multi-turn (multi_turn) and instruction following (instruction_following). Scores come from blind human pairwise votes, not automated benchmarks.

"Longer prompts" is LMArena's longer_query category: only battles where the user's prompt itself is long. It reflects handling of detailed, complex requests; it is not a long-context (hundreds of thousands of tokens) test.

🏆 #1 in Longer promptsData Oct 22, 2026
Gemini 4 Argon (High)Google · 1537.8

Claude vs Gemini: which is better for writing?

ModelScoreRankCreative writingInput / outputScore per $
Claude Opus 5.5 (High)Top Claude1532.8±1021534.2 #1$4 / $20192
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh)Cheapest Claude in top 201494.7±10.4131468.3 #18$2 / $10374
Gemini 4 Argon (High)Top Gemini1537.8±9.811523.1 #2$2 / $10385
Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)Cheapest Gemini in top 201494.3±6.4141489.1 #9$0.75 / $3.75996

When the gap is smaller than the combined confidence intervals, the rank difference may not be significant. Prices are OpenRouter quotes (USD / 1M tokens).

Full ranking · Longer prompts

396 models

Sorted by LMArena score; ± is the 95% CI half-width. Prices: OpenRouter quote (official list price if none), USD per 1M tokens.

# Model Score Rank Votes Creative writing Input / output Blended Score per $
1 Gemini 4 Argon (High)Google 1537.8±9.8 1 4,297 1523.1 $2 / $10 $4 385
2 Claude Opus 5.5 (High)Anthropic 1532.8±10 2 4,393 1534.2 $4 / $20 $8 192
3 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)Anthropic 1523.8±8.2 3 6,752 1509.7 $10 / $50 $20 76
4 Claude Opus 5 (Max)Anthropic 1517.4±6.1 4 16,175 1494.6 $5 / $25 $10 152
5 Claude Opus 4.6 (High)Anthropic 1517.3±4.7 5 35,363 1504.8 $5 / $25 $10 152
6 Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic 1514.7±4.6 6 38,293 1483.7 $5 / $25 $10 152
7 Claude Opus 5 (High)Anthropic 1512.7±5.1 7 33,259 1486.5 $5 / $25 $10 151
8 Claude Fable 5 (High)Anthropic 1510±5.5 8 20,521 1493.4 $10 / $50 $20 76
9 Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)Google 1506.9±6 9 20,218 1489.4 $0.825 / $4.125 $1.65 913
10 Claude Opus 4.7 (High)Anthropic 1505±5.1 10 30,099 1486.2 $5 / $25 $10 151
11 MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi 1500.5±14.6 11 1,650 1466.4 $0.435 / $0.87 $0.544 2,759
12 Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic 1499±5.1 12 30,825 1479.7 $5 / $25 $10 150
13 Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh)Anthropic 1494.7±10.4 13 3,810 1468.3 $2 / $10 $4 374
14 Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)Google 1494.3±6.4 14 14,078 1489.1 $0.75 / $3.75 $1.5 996
15 Kimi K3 (Max)Moonshot AI 1493.2±6.1 15 15,307 1456.2 $0.202 / $20 $5.152 290
16 Muse Wonder (Max)Meta 1491.9±12 16 2,639 1492.6 $4 / $20 $8 187
17 Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)Meta 1488.9±7.3 17 9,212 1462.4 $1.25 / $4.25 $2 745
18 Qwen3.8-MaxAlibaba 1488.8±6.4 18 13,498 1477.4 $2 / $6 $3 496
19 GPT-5.5 (High)OpenAI 1484.3±5 19 32,015 1455.3 $5 / $30 $11.25 132
20 Claude Opus 4.8 (High)Anthropic 1483.5±5.1 20 30,207 1454.4 $5 / $25 $10 148
21 GLM-5.3 (Max)Z.ai 1482.9±6.7 21 11,414 1459.2 $0.07 / $1.4 $0.402 3,685
22 GPT-5.5OpenAI 1482.4±4.9 22 33,410 1452.3 $5 / $30 $11.25 132
23 Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)Google 1482.4±5.3 23 22,822 1467.6 $1.5 / $9 $3.375 439
24 Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle 1482.3±4.1 24 57,815 1481.8 $2 / $12 $4.5 329
25 GLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai 1482.3±6.2 25 16,904 1440.8 $0.15 / $0.5 $0.238 6,241
26 Qwen3.7-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1481.6±15.1 26 1,722 1447.7 $1.475 / $4.425 $2.213 670
27 MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi 1481±4.8 27 34,537 1438 $0.305 / $0.609 $0.381 3,891
28 GPT-5.6 Sol (xHigh)OpenAI 1480.8±5.7 28 19,663 1450.2 $4 / $20 $8 185
29 Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic 1479.8±5.1 29 30,877 1446.4 $5 / $25 $10 148
30 GLM-5.2 (Max)Z.ai 1479.5±5.3 30 23,831 1461.6 $0.034 / $7 $1.776 833
31 Claude Opus 4.5 (20251101)Anthropic 1479.1±4.9 31 24,230 1443 $5 / $25 $10 148
32 Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic 1478.8±4.9 32 31,089 1435.4 $3 / $15 $6 247
33 Claude Opus 4.5 (High, 32K, 20251101)Anthropic 1478.3±6.6 33 9,816 1444.8 $5 / $25 $10 148
34 Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium)Google 1476.9±5.4 34 22,656 1470.1 $1.5 / $9 $3.375 438
35 Qwen3.5-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1476.5±7.1 35 8,957 1464.2 No price yet
36 Claude Sonnet 4.5 (20250929)Anthropic 1475.2±4.6 36 26,460 1441.6 No price yet
37 Claude Sonnet 4.5 (High, 32K, 20250929)Anthropic 1474.9±4.5 37 26,066 1424.6 No price yet
38 Gemini 3.6 Flash (High)Google 1474.6±5.9 38 17,147 1466.1 $0.75 / $3.75 $1.5 983
39 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max)DeepSeek 1473.7±8.3 39 5,951 1438.5 $0.02 / $1 $0.265 5,561
40 GPT-5.4 (High)OpenAI 1473.5±5.2 40 28,434 1439 $2.5 / $15 $5.625 262
41 Muse Spark 1.2 (xHigh)Meta 1472.6±9.5 41 4,570 1434.7 $1.25 / $4.25 $2 736
42 Gemini 3 ProGoogle 1471.1±6.4 42 11,160 1482.5 $2 / $12 $4.5 327
43 Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI 1467.8±6 43 16,976 1433.6 $0.65 / $3.41 $1.34 1,095
44 GLM-5.1Z.ai 1467±4.7 44 29,419 1452.6 $1.4 / $4.4 $2.15 682
45 GPT-5.4OpenAI 1464±5.2 45 29,943 1427.7 $2.5 / $15 $5.625 260
46 Claude Sonnet 5 (High)Anthropic 1462.4±5.3 46 23,861 1416 $2 / $10 $4 366
47 Grok 4.5xAI 1462±5.7 47 19,271 1441.8 $2 / $6 $3 487
48 GPT-6 Astra (Max)OpenAI 1462±8.5 48 5,873 1420.5 $10 / $50 $20 73
49 ERNIE 5.1Baidu 1461.8±6.2 49 16,733 1440.9 No price yet
50 Muse Spark 1.1Meta 1461.1±5.4 50 21,243 1434.6 $1.25 / $4.25 $2 731
51 GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)OpenAI 1460.7±11 51 3,356 1424.4 $2 / $10 $4 365
52 MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi 1459.1±8.7 52 5,627 1404.3 $0.14 / $0.28 $0.175 8,338
53 Qwen3.6-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1458.1±13 53 2,300 1435.3 No price yet
54 DeepSeek-V4-ProDeepSeek 1457.6±5.3 54 25,945 1446.2 $0.435 / $0.87 $0.544 2,680
55 DeepSeek-V4-Pro (High, 20260813)DeepSeek 1457.3±9.2 55 4,565 1438.6 $0.955 / $1.911 $1.194 1,220
56 Grok 4.6 (High)xAI 1456.8±6.2 56 14,815 1427.9 $2 / $6 $3 486
57 MiMo-V2-ProXiaomi 1455.4±6.8 57 9,987 1415.3 No price yet
58 Claude Opus 4.1 (Thinking 16K, 20250805)Anthropic 1454.9±6.1 58 11,480 1412 No price yet
59 Qwen3.7-PlusAlibaba 1454.2±5.6 59 19,543 1438 $0.32 / $1.28 $0.56 2,597
60 GPT-5.6 Terra (xHigh)OpenAI 1453.2±5.5 60 21,486 1413 $2 / $12 $4.5 323
61 Gemini 3 FlashGoogle 1451.6±7.1 61 8,462 1456.8 $0.5 / $3 $1.125 1,290
62 Muse SparkMeta 1450.8±8.5 62 5,609 1458.7 No price yet
63 Step 5 PreviewStepFun 1450.3±9.7 63 4,141 1411.4 $1 / $2.7 $1.425 1,018
64 Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle 1449.1±3.9 64 33,998 1453.7 $1.25 / $10 $3.438 422
65 Qwen3.8-27BAlibaba 1448.9±6.7 65 11,593 1382.9 $0.2 / $2.5 $0.775 1,870
66 GPT-5.1 (High)OpenAI 1447.7±6.3 66 10,935 1427.1 $1.25 / $10 $3.438 421
67 Gemma 4 31BGoogle 1446.3±13.4 67 1,796 1416 No price yet
68 DeepSeek-V4-Pro Preview (High)DeepSeek 1446.1±5.4 68 24,721 1440.8 No price yet
69 GLM-5Z.ai 1445.6±6.3 69 11,123 1437.9 $1 / $3.2 $1.55 933
70 MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi 1444.8±5.7 70 21,302 1392.5 $0.119 / $0.238 $0.149 9,710
71 MiniMax-M3MiniMax 1444.7±5 71 30,171 1402.7 $0.3 / $1.2 $0.525 2,752
72 Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)Moonshot AI 1444.4±4.7 72 29,827 1422.1 $0.5 / $2.5 $1 1,444
73 Claude Opus 4.1 (20250805)Anthropic 1444.4±5 73 18,470 1410.4 No price yet
74 Hy3Tencent 1442.3±8.3 74 5,957 1404.8 $0.132 / $0.528 $0.231 6,244
75 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (26-02-10)Amazon 1441.9±17.7 75 1,021 1368.8 No price yet
76 Qwen3.5-397B-A17BAlibaba 1441.3±4.3 76 42,387 1402.5 No price yet
77 MiMo-V2-OmniXiaomi 1441.1±7.6 77 9,207 1392.2 No price yet
78 Qwen3.6-PlusAlibaba 1439.2±5.6 78 21,167 1403.7 No price yet
79 Grok 3 Preview (02-24)xAI 1439±8.7 79 4,873 1413.9 No price yet
80 GLM-5V-TurboZ.ai 1439±9 80 4,896 1417.7 No price yet
81 Qwen3-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1438.2±7.9 81 6,157 1401.1 No price yet
82 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B (NVFP4)NVIDIA 1437.1±8.9 82 5,327 1398.3 No price yet
83 Grok 4.20 Beta (Reasoning, 0309)xAI 1436.6±5.1 83 29,103 1432 No price yet
84 GPT-5.6 Luna (xHigh)OpenAI 1436.4±5.7 84 19,504 1395.9 $0.2 / $1.2 $0.45 3,192
85 Kimi K2.5 (Instant)Moonshot AI 1435.7±11.7 85 2,388 1382.4 $0.5 / $2.5 $1 1,436
86 TInklingThinking Machines 1435.3±5.6 86 20,437 1389.9 No price yet
87 Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle 1434.5±6 87 17,103 1420.6 No price yet
88 DeepSeek-V4-FlashDeepSeek 1434.1±5.5 88 23,352 1402.9 $0.091 / $0.182 $0.114 12,602
89 GLM-4.7Z.ai 1432.1±10.3 89 3,264 1401.3 No price yet
90 Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta (0309)xAI 1431±5.2 90 27,972 1436.2 No price yet
91 GPT-5.1OpenAI 1429.8±6 91 12,226 1403.5 $1.25 / $10 $3.438 416
92 RBeam 1.0 501B A23BReflection AI 1429.4±14.1 92 1,887 1391 No price yet
93 Gemini 3 Flash (Minimal)Google 1428.8±4.5 93 36,498 1435.2 $0.5 / $3 $1.125 1,270
94 Mistral Large 4Mistral AI 1428.6±9.5 94 4,434 1363.8 $1.36 / $4.18 $2.065 692
95 DeepSeek-V3.2DeepSeek 1427.9±5.7 95 13,722 1399.4 $0.28 / $0.42 $0.315 4,533
96 Dola Seed 2.0 ProByteDance 1427.6±4.8 96 32,677 1406.2 No price yet
97 GPT-5.2 Chat (20260210)OpenAI 1427.6±6 97 13,957 1401 $1.75 / $14 $4.813 297
98 Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle 1427.1±13.7 98 1,713 1401.2 No price yet
99 Claude Haiku 4.5 (20251001)Anthropic 1427±3.7 99 57,914 1370.8 No price yet
100 Grok 4.20 Beta 1xAI 1426.5±6.7 100 10,459 1438.4 No price yet
101 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct (2507)Alibaba 1426±4.2 101 27,110 1374.7 No price yet
102 DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)DeepSeek 1425.9±5.9 102 11,731 1389.3 $0.28 / $0.42 $0.315 4,527
103 LongCat-Flash-Chat Exp (2602)Meituan 1425.2±6.5 103 11,452 1388 No price yet
104 DeepSeek-V4-Flash Preview (High)DeepSeek 1424±5.5 104 23,489 1398.7 No price yet
105 DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)DeepSeek 1423.1±22.3 105 676 1390.8 No price yet
106 GLM-4.6Z.ai 1422.3±6.5 106 9,144 1411.7 $0.55 / $2.2 $0.963 1,478
107 GPT-5.5 InstantOpenAI 1422±6.6 107 12,560 1418.2 No price yet
108 Claude Opus 4 (Thinking 16K, 20250514)Anthropic 1422±7.6 108 6,967 1385.9 No price yet
109 ERNIE 5.0 (0110)Baidu 1421.8±6 109 11,925 1426.2 No price yet
110 DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)DeepSeek 1421.7±12 110 2,373 1400.9 No price yet
111 Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-InstructAlibaba 1419.7±12.8 111 2,246 1366 No price yet
112 Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle 1418.8±3.9 112 33,306 1399.9 No price yet
113 MiniMax-M2.7MiniMax 1418.8±4.5 113 37,314 1354.2 No price yet
114 DeepSeek-V3.2-ExpDeepSeek 1417.6±10.6 114 3,061 1403.2 No price yet
115 Grok 4.1xAI 1416±5 115 21,159 1411 No price yet
116 Grok 4.7 (xHigh)xAI 1415.9±8.5 116 6,094 1381.2 $2 / $6 $3 472
117 GPT-6 Sol (Max)OpenAI 1415.8±8.5 117 6,166 1377.4 $2 / $10 $4 354
118 MiniMax-M2.1 PreviewMiniMax 1415.6±8.7 118 4,547 1362.3 No price yet
119 Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI 1415±9 119 5,099 1373.9 $1.5 / $7.5 $3 472
120 Kimi K2 Thinking TurboMoonshot AI 1414.9±4.9 120 19,923 1373.4 No price yet
121 Mistral Large 3Mistral AI 1414.5±4.2 121 33,190 1386.7 No price yet
122 Grok 4 Fast (Non-Reasoning)xAI 1414±15.6 122 1,413 1386.3 No price yet
123 Qwen3.5-27BAlibaba 1413.1±6.4 123 11,049 1362.6 No price yet
124 GPT-5.2OpenAI 1412.6±4.7 124 34,072 1375.7 $1.75 / $14 $4.813 294
125 GLM-4.5Z.ai 1412.6±8.5 125 5,083 1395.1 No price yet
126 ChatGPT-4o Latest (20250326)OpenAI 1412.3±4.9 126 17,773 1405 No price yet
127 Grok 4 Fast (Reasoning)xAI 1412.2±8.8 127 4,528 1378 No price yet
128 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp (Thinking)DeepSeek 1410.8±12.6 128 2,108 1388 No price yet
129 Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibaba 1410.6±6.3 129 11,720 1368.1 No price yet
130 Qwen3-Max (2025-09-23)Alibaba 1410.2±12.6 130 2,091 1380.6 No price yet
131 ERNIE-5.0-Preview (1203)Baidu 1409.9±11.5 131 2,571 1422.2 No price yet
132 MiMo-V2-Flash (Non-Thinking)Xiaomi 1409.4±5.4 132 16,450 1376.1 No price yet
133 GPT-5.2 (High)OpenAI 1408.7±5.4 133 17,228 1376.1 $1.75 / $14 $4.813 293
134 Grok 4 (0709)xAI 1408.1±6.6 134 8,906 1396.6 No price yet
135 GPT-5.4 mini (High)OpenAI 1407.4±5.2 135 27,790 1370.2 No price yet
136 GPT-6 Luna (Max)OpenAI 1407.3±5.5 136 31,079 1362.7 $0.1 / $0.5 $0.2 7,037
137 Grok 4.1 (Thinking)xAI 1406.7±5 137 21,132 1403.5 No price yet
138 ERNIE-5.0-Preview (1022)Baidu 1406±16.3 138 1,201 1416.3 No price yet
139 Mistral Medium 3.1 (2508)Mistral AI 1405.8±4.2 139 27,790 1390.7 No price yet
140 GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27)OpenAI 1405.5±13.6 140 1,796 1393.6 No price yet
141 Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (09-2025)Google 1405.4±6.9 141 8,230 1386.4 No price yet
142 Hunyuan Vision 1.5 ThinkingTencent 1405.2±24.6 142 510 1389.4 No price yet
143 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-InstructAlibaba 1402.4±8.2 143 5,397 1333.3 No price yet
144 TInkling-SmallThinking Machines 1402.1±6 144 16,562 1334.3 No price yet
145 Hy3 previewTencent 1401.9±11.3 145 3,050 1340.2 No price yet
146 Step-3.5-FlashStepFun 1401.9±5.1 146 22,834 1357.2 No price yet
147 Claude Opus 4 (20250514)Anthropic 1401.2±7.1 147 8,376 1374.6 No price yet
148 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (26-01-10)Amazon 1399.4±18.2 148 963 1329.6 No price yet
149 DeepSeek-V3.1DeepSeek 1399.3±10.3 149 3,242 1387.7 No price yet
150 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B (NVFP4)NVIDIA 1399.2±14.4 150 1,792 1375.5 No price yet
151 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking (2507)Alibaba 1399±14.2 151 1,640 1383.6 No price yet
152 Claude Haiku 5.5 (High)Anthropic 1398.8±12.1 152 2,718 1335.6 $0.1 / $0.5 $0.2 6,994
153 GPT-5 ChatOpenAI 1398.5±7.5 153 6,839 1364.7 No price yet
154 Claude Sonnet 4 (Thinking 32K, 20250514)Anthropic 1397.4±7.7 154 6,722 1344.8 No price yet
155 DeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusDeepSeek 1395.5±19.7 155 842 1403.4 No price yet
156 GPT-5.3 ChatOpenAI 1395.1±6.2 156 13,412 1355.2 No price yet
157 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (11-10)Amazon 1395±7.4 157 6,523 1349.3 No price yet
158 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite PreviewGoogle 1394.3±5.2 158 27,236 1401 No price yet
159 MiMo-V2-Flash (Thinking)Xiaomi 1393±10.6 159 2,992 1347.8 No price yet
160 Grok 4.3xAI 1392.6±4.9 160 33,202 1379.8 No price yet
161 Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba 1391.7±5.2 161 25,688 1343.1 No price yet
162 LongCat-Flash-ChatMeituan 1391±12 162 2,351 1346.4 No price yet
163 Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-ThinkingAlibaba 1390.9±13.6 163 1,763 1343.9 No price yet
164 DeepSeek-R1 (0528)DeepSeek 1390.9±10.6 164 3,131 1405.3 No price yet
165 Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)xAI 1390±5.1 165 18,609 1394.4 No price yet
166 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (12-10)Amazon 1390±19.6 166 817 1350.4 No price yet
167 Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba 1389.4±6.2 167 11,900 1347.4 No price yet
168 Qwen3-235B-A22B (Non-Thinking)Alibaba 1388.8±7.5 168 7,153 1356.2 No price yet
169 GPT-5 (High)OpenAI 1387.3±7.5 169 6,996 1364.2 No price yet
170 Hunyuan T1 (20250711)Tencent 1384.9±19.3 170 897 1393.1 No price yet
171 GPT-4.1 (2025-04-14)OpenAI 1384.7±6.4 171 9,958 1363.4 No price yet
172 Muse GlimmerMeta 1381.6±14.5 172 1,797 1338.3 No price yet
173 Solar Pro 4Upstage 1381.5±6.8 173 11,207 1317.8 No price yet
174 Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514)Anthropic 1379.1±7.3 174 7,704 1342 No price yet
175 Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (2507)Alibaba 1378.2±8.5 175 4,936 1317 No price yet
176 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-InstructAlibaba 1377.9±8.7 176 4,936 1332.9 No price yet
177 o1 (2024-12-17)OpenAI 1377.5±9.9 177 3,571 1347.2 No price yet
178 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17)Google 1373.1±7.8 178 6,397 1366.9 No price yet
179 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Non-Thinking, 09-2025)Google 1372.9±5.8 179 11,989 1358.3 No price yet
180 Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Thinking 32K, 20250219)Anthropic 1372.6±7.9 180 6,135 1331.6 No price yet
181 Grok 3 Mini (High)xAI 1371.7±10.4 181 3,227 1334.3 No price yet
182 o3 (2025-04-16)OpenAI 1371.7±6.1 182 11,536 1358.4 No price yet
183 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (10-20)Amazon 1369.9±11.1 183 2,709 1318.4 No price yet
184 GLM-4.5-AirZ.ai 1365.9±7.5 184 6,766 1343 No price yet
185 Hunyuan TurboS (20250416)Tencent 1365.8±14.8 185 1,522 1358.4 No price yet
186 MiniMax-M2.5MiniMax 1365.8±5.8 186 16,259 1330.6 No price yet
187 GPT-5.4 nano (High)OpenAI 1365.7±5.3 187 27,707 1314.2 No price yet
188 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12BNVIDIA 1362.3±12 188 2,268 1316.8 No price yet
189 Mistral Medium 3 (2505)Mistral AI 1360±8 189 5,927 1343.4 No price yet
190 Granite 4.2 30BIBM 1358.2±16.3 190 1,447 1287.6 No price yet
191 Qwen2.5-MaxAlibaba 1357.6±8.6 191 4,535 1338.4 No price yet
192 GLM-4.6VZ.ai 1357.3±22 192 703 1347.4 No price yet
193 Grok 3 Mini BetaxAI 1357.1±9.3 193 4,035 1341.5 No price yet
194 GPT-5 mini (High)OpenAI 1354.8±8 194 5,901 1325.1 No price yet
195 DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek 1354.7±11.9 195 2,303 1354 No price yet
196 Claude 3.7 Sonnet (20250219)Anthropic 1354.5±7.5 196 6,666 1316.5 No price yet
197 ?Trinity Large Preview 1354.4±6.4 197 11,605 1319.6 No price yet
198 Kimi K2 Preview (0905)Moonshot AI 1353.2±11.5 198 2,571 1349.5 No price yet
199 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-ThinkingAlibaba 1352.8±10.9 199 2,880 1314.1 No price yet
200 DeepSeek-V3 (0324)DeepSeek 1351.9±6.7 200 8,531 1363.9 No price yet
201 Qwen3-235B-A22BAlibaba 1351.9±8.7 201 4,604 1316.1 No price yet
202 Step-1o Turbo (202506)StepFun 1348.2±16.3 202 1,272 1307 No price yet
203 GLM-4.7-FlashZ.ai 1344.5±10.1 203 3,380 1296 No price yet
204 Gemini 2.0 Flash (001)Google 1344.2±7.4 204 6,520 1339.2 No price yet
205 GPT-4.1 mini (2025-04-14)OpenAI 1343.6±7.5 205 7,071 1299.3 No price yet
206 o1-previewOpenAI 1343.6±9.7 206 4,578 1317.9 No price yet
207 DeepSeek-V3DeepSeek 1342.8±10.5 207 3,123 1328.8 No price yet
208 o3-mini (High)OpenAI 1342.7±12.2 208 2,160 1285.6 No price yet
209 Hunyuan Large (2025-02-10)Tencent 1341.2±27.8 209 371 1264.1 No price yet
210 Amazon Nova 2 LiteAmazon 1335.6±10.6 210 3,073 1292.4 No price yet
211 Command A (03-2025)Cohere 1334±6.1 211 10,706 1318.9 No price yet
212 Gemma 3 27B ITGoogle 1332.9±7.4 212 6,671 1345.2 No price yet
213 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (10-09)Amazon 1332.7±23.8 213 572 1306.3 No price yet
214 MiniMax-M2MiniMax 1331.1±14.4 214 1,659 1286.5 No price yet
215 ?INTELLECT-3 1330.8±16.2 215 1,357 1316 No price yet
216 Mercury 2Inception 1329.7±19.2 216 918 1288.8 No price yet
217 o3-miniOpenAI 1327.1±6.5 217 9,261 1272.7 No price yet
218 Qwen3-32BAlibaba 1327.1±24.1 218 504 1297 No price yet
219 MiniMax-M1MiniMax 1326.1±7.3 219 6,983 1297.5 No price yet
220 Mistral Small 3.2 (2506)Mistral AI 1325.7±10 220 3,420 1304.5 No price yet
221 Kimi K2 Preview (0711)Moonshot AI 1325.6±8.2 221 5,542 1323.5 No price yet
222 Step-3StepFun 1325.3±16.2 222 1,274 1321.5 No price yet
223 Ling-flash-2.0Ant Group 1324.3±15.9 223 1,289 1287.3 No price yet
224 Qwen-Plus (0125)Alibaba 1324.1±20.9 224 690 1292.2 No price yet
225 Granite 4.2 8BIBM 1323.8±17.1 225 1,368 1234.9 No price yet
226 Ring-flash-2.0Ant Group 1320.8±15.9 226 1,363 1269.9 No price yet
227 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05)Google 1320.2±10.4 227 2,940 1318.7 No price yet
228 o1-miniOpenAI 1320.1±7.6 228 7,913 1244 No price yet
229 Hunyuan TurboS (20250226)Tencent 1320±31.6 229 287 1270.2 No price yet
230 gpt-oss-120bOpenAI 1319±7.6 230 6,562 1274.4 No price yet
231 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)NVIDIA 1318.4±7.5 231 9,806 1262.6 No price yet
232 ?Trinity Large Thinking 1318±6.7 232 13,070 1308.4 No price yet
233 Gemma 3 12B ITGoogle 1316.7±27.9 233 371 1331.1 No price yet
234 GLM-4-Plus (0111)Z.ai 1315.5±20.2 234 765 1310.6 No price yet
235 Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1.5NVIDIA 1314.9±21.5 235 653 1306.5 No price yet
236 o4-mini (2025-04-16)OpenAI 1314.5±6.8 236 8,623 1293.7 No price yet
237 Olmo 3.1 32B InstructAi2 1312.9±10.8 237 2,957 1264.5 No price yet
238 GPT-5 nano (High)OpenAI 1312.4±14.4 238 1,628 1249.6 No price yet
239 Qwen3-30B-A3BAlibaba 1311.6±8.8 239 4,494 1271.1 No price yet
240 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20241022)Anthropic 1310.9±5.7 240 13,769 1291.9 No price yet
241 Hunyuan Turbo (0110)Tencent 1308.6±29 241 313 1268.7 No price yet
242 QwQ-32BAlibaba 1307.9±9.2 242 4,050 1287.4 No price yet
243 Gemini 1.5 Pro (002)Google 1307.5±7.1 243 8,372 1332.4 No price yet
244 Step-2 16K Exp (202412)StepFun 1306.2±21 244 693 1327.4 No price yet
245 GLM-4.5VZ.ai 1304.5±17.8 245 1,063 1294.9 No price yet
246 Hunyuan Standard (2025-02-10)Tencent 1300.5±26.6 246 432 1241.9 No price yet
247 DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)DeepSeek 1300.4±17.1 247 1,037 1284.9 No price yet
248 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B (BF16)NVIDIA 1300.2±9.6 248 4,055 1269.5 No price yet
249 Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1NVIDIA 1299.2±29.9 249 317 1287.8 No price yet
250 Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1NVIDIA 1298.6±29.6 250 321 1314 No price yet
251 Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct (2503)Mistral AI 1298.4±7.8 251 6,344 1252.1 No price yet
252 ?Yi Lightning 1296.6±10.5 252 3,634 1279.8 No price yet
253 Olmo 3 32B ThinkAi2 1295.4±16.1 253 1,378 1256 No price yet
254 Magistral Medium (2506)Mistral AI 1294.3±12.3 254 2,402 1245.1 No price yet
255 Granite 4.2 3BIBM 1291.9±18.2 255 1,360 1207 No price yet
256 Qwen2.5-Plus (1127)Alibaba 1291.5±14.1 256 1,586 1261.6 No price yet
257 Gemini 1.5 Pro (001)Google 1290.4±8.3 257 9,750 1272.2 No price yet
258 ?Athene V2 Chat 1289.2±9.6 258 3,663 1234.1 No price yet
259 GPT-4o mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI 1288.6±7 259 8,989 1267.5 No price yet
260 GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI 1288.3±6.9 260 14,922 1291.2 No price yet
261 Qwen-Max (0919)Alibaba 1288.1±11.8 261 2,440 1247.9 No price yet
262 GLM-4-PlusZ.ai 1285.6±10 262 3,992 1263.4 No price yet
263 Gemini 1.5 Flash (002)Google 1283.5±8.4 263 5,463 1285.2 No price yet
264 GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI 1283.1±8.4 264 6,160 1274.3 No price yet
265 GPT-4.1 nano (2025-04-14)OpenAI 1282.4±19.9 265 730 1259.8 No price yet
266 Qwen2.5-72B-InstructAlibaba 1281.3±8.1 266 6,008 1221 No price yet
267 Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E InstructMeta 1279.4±7.4 267 7,073 1266.1 No price yet
268 Hunyuan Large VisionTencent 1279.3±19.8 268 875 1247.6 No price yet
269 Grok 2 (2024-08-13)xAI 1275.9±7.2 269 8,902 1284 No price yet
270 Gemma 3n E4B ITGoogle 1275.8±10.9 270 2,878 1286.9 No price yet
271 Granite 4.1 8BIBM 1274.8±16.5 271 1,631 1250.4 No price yet
272 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20240620)Anthropic 1274.7±7.7 272 10,574 1237.9 No price yet
273 Gemma 3 4B ITGoogle 1273.2±27 273 444 1270.2 No price yet
274 DeepSeek-V2.5DeepSeek 1272.7±10.1 274 3,499 1236.5 No price yet
275 Olmo 3.1 32B ThinkAi2 1270.9±13.4 275 2,039 1226.6 No price yet
276 Grok 2 mini (2024-08-13)xAI 1266±7.7 276 7,048 1241.3 No price yet
277 Llama 3.1 405B Instruct (BF16)Meta 1265.4±8 277 5,486 1259.5 No price yet
278 Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E InstructMeta 1264.9±8.3 278 5,808 1248.7 No price yet
279 MercuryInception 1264.4±25.7 279 521 1189 No price yet
280 Mistral Large (2411)Mistral AI 1261.2±9.5 280 3,607 1241.6 No price yet
281 Claude 3.5 Haiku (20241022)Anthropic 1260.2±6.1 281 10,959 1232.3 No price yet
282 Llama 3.1 405B Instruct (FP8)Meta 1259.2±7.5 282 8,047 1261.7 No price yet
283 Claude 3 Opus (20240229)Anthropic 1258.7±6.4 283 23,374 1234.6 No price yet
284 Mistral Large 2 (2407)Mistral AI 1257.2±8.6 284 5,885 1242.6 No price yet
285 Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta 1255.3±6.6 285 8,328 1250.2 No price yet
286 Amazon Nova Pro 1.0Amazon 1254.5±9.8 286 3,398 1212.1 No price yet
287 GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)OpenAI 1253.5±7.8 287 11,559 1268.2 No price yet
288 Gemini Advanced (0514)Google 1253.2±10.4 288 5,486 1283.9 No price yet
289 Gemini 1.5 Flash (001)Google 1251.3±8.6 289 7,837 1221.9 No price yet
290 Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-InstructAlibaba 1250.4±18.6 290 804 1173.7 No price yet
291 gpt-oss-20bOpenAI 1250.3±13.3 291 2,104 1201 No price yet
292 Mistral Small 24B Instruct (2501)Mistral AI 1245.6±13.5 292 1,767 1194.4 No price yet
293 GPT-4 Turbo Preview (0125)OpenAI 1243.5±8.5 293 9,653 1232.2 No price yet
294 Granite-4.0-H-SmallIBM 1241.7±16.9 294 1,311 1209.5 No price yet
295 Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta 1240.6±7.6 295 7,622 1231.6 No price yet
296 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructNVIDIA 1238.1±17.4 296 1,049 1268.3 No price yet
297 GPT-4 Turbo Preview (1106)OpenAI 1235.7±8.4 297 9,140 1244 No price yet
298 Amazon Nova Lite 1.0Amazon 1233.4±10.8 298 2,784 1196.6 No price yet
299 ?Athene 70B (0725) 1231.8±12.3 299 2,123 1238.1 No price yet
300 Gemma 2 27B ITGoogle 1230.2±6.9 300 9,918 1240.4 No price yet
301 Command R+ (08-2024)Cohere 1230±15.2 301 1,369 1234.4 No price yet
302 Aya Expanse 32BCohere 1227.2±9.4 302 4,165 1199.5 No price yet
303 ?Gemma 2 9B IT SimPO 1225.9±18.9 303 841 1238.5 No price yet
304 Nemotron-4 340B InstructNVIDIA 1224.2±13.3 304 2,130 1202.3 No price yet
305 Hunyuan Standard 256KTencent 1224.2±26.2 305 414 1164.8 No price yet
306 Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 70BAi2 1223.9±24.6 306 463 1231 No price yet
307 ?Reka Core (20240904) 1220±18.1 307 951 1236 No price yet
308 DeepSeek-Coder-V2DeepSeek 1218.7±13.9 308 1,842 1120 No price yet
309 Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B (001)Google 1218.3±8.4 309 5,573 1217.3 No price yet
310 Phi-4Microsoft 1217±10.8 310 2,896 1181.3 No price yet
311 Ministral 8B (2410)Mistral AI 1211.6±20 311 720 1174.5 No price yet
312 Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229)Anthropic 1210.7±8.6 312 11,870 1185.9 No price yet
313 GLM-4 (0520)Z.ai 1206.4±16.6 313 1,174 1197.7 No price yet
314 ?Jamba 1.5 Large 1206±17.3 314 1,024 1211.5 No price yet
315 Amazon Nova Micro 1.0Amazon 1205.2±11.3 315 2,625 1171.5 No price yet
316 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51B InstructNVIDIA 1204.9±22.8 316 587 1213 No price yet
317 Command R+Cohere 1201.3±8.9 317 9,149 1200.7 No price yet
318 Command R (08-2024)Cohere 1197.3±14.8 318 1,421 1169.7 No price yet
319 Gemma 2 9B ITGoogle 1196.3±7.8 319 6,877 1205.3 No price yet
320 OLMo 2 32B Instruct (0325)Ai2 1193.8±33.8 320 261 1198.3 No price yet
321 Qwen2-72B-InstructAlibaba 1192±10.1 321 4,614 1180.7 No price yet
322 ?Reka Flash (20240904) 1191.4±17.5 322 992 1202 No price yet
323 Aya Expanse 8BCohere 1191.1±14.7 323 1,483 1167.8 No price yet
324 Claude 3 Haiku (20240307)Anthropic 1190±7.6 324 13,976 1157.1 No price yet
325 GPT-4 (0314)OpenAI 1189.9±11.5 325 4,251 1190 No price yet
326 GPT-4 (0613)OpenAI 1187.5±9.3 326 7,523 1191.2 No price yet
327 Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta 1181.2±8 327 6,736 1154.1 No price yet
328 Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8BAi2 1180.4±25.4 328 454 1181.2 No price yet
329 Llama 3 70B InstructMeta 1173.7±7.6 329 17,500 1209.5 No price yet
330 Mistral Large (2402)Mistral AI 1172.8±9.9 330 6,217 1160.8 No price yet
331 QwQ-32B-PreviewAlibaba 1166.4±25.8 331 475 1133.5 No price yet
332 Granite 3.1 8B InstructIBM 1161.5±26.7 332 461 1128.6 No price yet
333 Command RCohere 1157.3±9.9 333 6,160 1154.1 No price yet
334 Qwen1.5-110B-ChatAlibaba 1156.7±11.8 334 3,345 1147.7 No price yet
335 Qwen1.5-72B-ChatAlibaba 1156.7±11.5 335 3,483 1136.8 No price yet
336 ?Jamba 1.5 Mini 1156.4±17.3 336 1,023 1164.1 No price yet
337 Granite 3.1 2B InstructIBM 1154.7±25.9 337 489 1115.7 No price yet
338 Mistral MediumMistral AI 1153.1±12.8 338 2,718 1157.5 No price yet
339 ?InternLM2.5 20B Chat 1148.9±16.3 339 1,266 1122.5 No price yet
340 Qwen1.5-32B-ChatAlibaba 1145.7±12.5 340 2,574 1082.7 No price yet
341 Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1Mistral AI 1143.4±9.7 341 5,865 1141.1 No price yet
342 ?Yi 1.5 34B Chat 1143.2±13.3 342 2,098 1134.9 No price yet
343 ?Reka Flash 21B (20240226) 1140.5±12.8 343 2,719 1123.6 No price yet
344 ?Reka Flash 21B (Online, 20240226) 1139±15.6 344 1,650 1130.3 No price yet
345 Gemini Pro (Dev API)Google 1131.3±17.6 345 1,351 1130.2 No price yet
346 Gemma 2 2B ITGoogle 1129.7±8.5 346 5,866 1146.5 No price yet
347 Llama 3 8B InstructMeta 1127.4±8.6 347 11,165 1149.6 No price yet
348 Granite 3.0 8B InstructIBM 1121.7±23.4 348 603 1070.4 No price yet
349 GPT-3.5 Turbo (0125)OpenAI 1120.5±9.1 349 6,707 1092.1 No price yet
350 Phi-3 Medium 4K InstructMicrosoft 1119.8±12.9 350 2,150 1106.2 No price yet
351 Qwen1.5-14B-ChatAlibaba 1112.5±14.7 351 2,102 1090.3 No price yet
352 ?DBRX Instruct Preview 1111.3±12.4 352 3,489 1104 No price yet
353 ?Tulu 2 DPO 70B 1105.6±32.6 353 280 1104.7 No price yet
354 ?Zephyr ORPO 141B A35B v0.1 1104.5±27.8 354 448 1112.9 No price yet
355 ?Starling LM 7B Beta 1103.8±15.3 355 1,676 1095.4 No price yet
356 Mixtral 8x7B Instruct v0.1Mistral AI 1102.5±9.5 356 6,572 1108.5 No price yet
357 Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta 1100.1±17.8 357 1,046 1093.9 No price yet
358 WizardLM 70BMicrosoft 1096.7±31.2 358 355 1148.9 No price yet
359 ?Yi 34B Chat 1093.4±17.9 359 1,106 1107.8 No price yet
360 ?OpenChat 3.5 1092.6±28.1 360 414 1125.3 No price yet
361 DeepSeek LLM 67B ChatDeepSeek 1091.7±36.1 361 243 1067.2 No price yet
362 Qwen1.5-7B-ChatAlibaba 1089.8±29.8 362 372 1034.3 No price yet
363 Phi-3 Small 8K InstructMicrosoft 1087.3±13.1 363 2,238 1082.6 No price yet
364 ?OpenChat 3.5 (0106) 1085.3±18.2 364 1,097 1092.2 No price yet
365 ?Starling LM 7B Alpha 1080.8±22.6 365 666 1098.9 No price yet
366 Granite 3.0 2B InstructIBM 1070±23.8 366 647 1046 No price yet
367 GPT-3.5 Turbo (1106)OpenAI 1069.4±20.8 367 933 1034.8 No price yet
368 Llama 2 13B ChatMeta 1063.9±17.2 368 1,193 1046.6 No price yet
369 Llama 2 70B ChatMeta 1061.7±12.6 369 2,813 1074.6 No price yet
370 Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2Mistral AI 1059.9±15 370 1,592 1067.4 No price yet
371 ?SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct 1056±31.8 371 328 1031.2 No price yet
372 Gemma 1.1 7B ITGoogle 1055.3±12.5 372 2,649 1059.2 No price yet
373 ?OpenHermes 2.5 Mistral 7B 1053.9±32.9 373 270 1096.9 No price yet
374 WizardLM 13BMicrosoft 1053.2±39.8 374 203 1090.2 No price yet
375 Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta 1049.5±18.6 375 1,057 1032.5 No price yet
376 ?Vicuna 13B 1047±21.2 376 756 1057.9 No price yet
377 ?Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO 1045.4±34.6 377 230 1101.4 No price yet
378 Phi-3 Mini 4K InstructMicrosoft 1043.7±14.9 378 1,706 1036.7 No price yet
379 ?Zephyr 7B Beta 1041.3±26.8 379 461 1102.1 No price yet
380 Phi-3 Mini 4K Instruct (June 2024)Microsoft 1041.2±18.6 380 1,035 1044.4 No price yet
381 ?Vicuna 7B 1035.2±42.8 381 162 1020.8 No price yet
382 ?Vicuna 33B 1028.3±18.9 382 1,047 1124.4 No price yet
383 Qwen-14B-ChatAlibaba 1028.2±37.9 383 214 1027.4 No price yet
384 Gemma 7B ITGoogle 1021.4±22.2 384 676 1023.3 No price yet
385 Code Llama 34B InstructMeta 1013.1±32.5 385 320 1031.4 No price yet
386 PaLM 2Google 1009.4±36.4 386 251 991.2 No price yet
387 Gemma 1.1 2B ITGoogle 1002.3±17.7 387 1,179 997.7 No price yet
388 Mistral 7B InstructMistral AI 1000.3±26.5 388 448 1028.1 No price yet
389 ?Snowflake Arctic Instruct 999±14.2 389 2,793 1080.7 No price yet
390 Llama 2 7B ChatMeta 998.7±19.8 390 835 1033 No price yet
391 Llama 2 70B SteerLM ChatNVIDIA 997.5±40.6 391 208 1090.3 No price yet
392 Phi-3 Mini 128K InstructMicrosoft 995.4±15.8 392 2,074 1024 No price yet
393 Qwen1.5-4B-ChatAlibaba 987.4±23.5 393 692 969 No price yet
394 ?StripedHyena Nous 7B 982.2±31.2 394 334 1029 No price yet
395 Gemma 2B ITGoogle 980.3±29.5 395 377 986.2 No price yet
396 ?ChatGLM3 6B 951.5±39.2 396 205 969.8 No price yet

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Data: LMArena (lmarena-ai), CC-BY-4.0 · Longer prompts · published Oct 22, 2026

Sources & method

  1. Only the latest LMArena publish date is used; score, CI, votes and rank are copied from the dataset.
  2. Reasoning tiers of one model (e.g. High / Max) are separate LMArena entries and are listed separately.
  3. Prices are shown only when the entry maps to our LLM leaderboard; otherwise –, never estimated.
  4. Score ÷ blended price (3:1 input:output). A rough value indicator only.
  5. Synced daily at 06:35 UTC; if the source fails, the last good snapshot is kept.

FAQ

What is the best AI for writing?

In LMArena's creative writing category published Oct 22, 2026, #1 is Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 (High) (1534.2, 2,453 votes).

Claude or Gemini: which is better for writing?

Top creative-writing scores: Claude Claude Opus 5.5 (High) (1534.2, output $20/1M tokens); Gemini Gemini 4 Argon (High) (1523.1, output $10/1M tokens).

What is the cheapest good LLM for writing?

Among the top 20 for creative writing, the best score per dollar is MiMo-V2.6-Pro (1466.4, #20) at about $0.544/1M tokens blended; the cheapest is MiMo-V2.6-Pro ($0.544/1M, 1466.4).

Which vendors rank highest for writing?

By the creative writing category, each vendor's best model ranks: Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (High) (1534.2, #1), Google Gemini 4 Argon (High) (1523.1, #2), Meta Muse Wonder (Max) (1492.6, #7), Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max (1477.4, #16), Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro (1466.4, #20).

Which LLM handles longer prompts best?

On LMArena's Longer prompts category (published Oct 22, 2026, 396 models), the top three are Gemini 4 Argon (High) (1537.8), Claude Opus 5.5 (High) (1532.8), Claude Fable 5.1 (Max) (1523.8).

Where do the scores come from?

From LMArena: users submit writing prompts, two anonymous models answer, users vote for the better one, and scores are fitted with a Bradley-Terry model.